Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1887-09-30
THE DREAD PLAGUE.
A Vessel Infected with Cholera Arrires
Off New York-Eight Deaths
From the Disease.
Four of Those on Board Suffering
From the Pest on Reaching Port
They Are Taken to the Hospital
and the Ship Quarantined.

LITTLE FEAR OF THE DISEASE SPREADING.
New YORK, Sept. 24.-Ihe steamship
Alesla, which arrived below Thursday
night, from Marseilles and Naples. with
600 passengers, has Asiatic cholera
aboard. Eight of her passengers died
on the passage, and on her arrival at
quarantine the health officers found four
cases aboard. He has sent the Alesia.
and her passengers to West Bank, in the
lower bay. The Ales1a left Marseilles
August 30, and Naples September 3. She
is consigned to James W. Elwell d Co.
On September y Luigi Maria, steer
age passenger, aged twenty three years,
was taken sick and died on the 18TH;
Paul Antonio Baldyaria, another steerage
passenger, aged thirty eight, was taken
sick and died on the same date, the 18th !;
Jean Lenivolln, sailor, aged forty, died
the following day in less than twenty four
hours from the time he was taken down
with the disease; on the 18th Jean Somna,
a sailor, aged thirty, was taken sick. He
died on the 18th; Sherafn Denis, aged
twenty=one, a steerage passenger, died on
the goth, Anna Yeltriaged, a steerage
passenger, aged forty seven, died on the
21st; Francisco Matteo, aged forty -One
was taken sick before coming on board
and died on the 22d, probably of bron-
chitis; Maria Antonio Scala Veno, aged
fifty nine, was also ailing at the time of
coming Oh board, and died on the 22d
though without any symptoms of cholera.
All the above were buried at sea.
The quarantine commissioners at once
ordered the Alesia down to the lower bay.
The sick were conveyed to the ospital
on Swinburn's Island and the remainder
OF the passengers and crew we're thor
ougkly fumigated with sulphur and trans
ferred to Hoffman's Island, where they
will remain for a week at least, the time
depending altogether upon future deveI-
opments of the siok ones. Three were
children and were accompanied to the
hos pital by their mothers. The steamer
was also treated to a thorough fumigation
with sulphur and cleaned: and all other
precautions taken to prevent the spread
of the disease.
The Alesla sailed from Naples when the
cholera in its most dsadly form was rag
ing in that vicinity. Many of the Alesia's
passengers undoubtedly fled from the
epidemic aud at least one of them was
sick when the vessel sailed. The Fabre
Line Company, owners of the Alesia, sent
large stock of provisions to Hoffman's
Island.
The India, which left Naples two days
after the Alesia, arrived at quarantine
yesterday afternoon and was closely ex-
aminied, but no traces of cholera were
found. All steamers arriving from Medi-
terranean ports will be rigidIy examined
by the health officers.
THE NEWS IN WASHINGTON.
Surgeon General Hamilton, of the
Marine Hospital Service, has received a
dispatch from New York confirming the
press report of the arrival there of the
steamship Alesia, with cholera on board.
The telegram II esICiy announced the facts
in the case as published, without making
a request for Government assistance, and
it is thought the quarantine authorities of
New York feel confident of their ability
to stamp out the disease without asking
the help of the United States health
officers. DR.. StOner, of the Marine Hos
pital service, says that no authority is
vested in the bureau to interfere in State
quarantine affairs, unless request comes
from the health officers of the State for
assistance. New York, he says, has a
very large and efficient quarantine board,
fully able, IN his opinion, 20 grapple sue
cessfully with the exigencies of the oc-
casion.
Orders have been sent by Ghe Marine
Hospital service to the National quaran-
tine station at Cap Charles and Delaware
breakwater to detain all vessels coming
from Italy and report the same to the
bureau.
NO ALARM IN CHICAGO.